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Richard Leverton

Leverton, Richard, Private, 3/1553, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Born Killamarsh, Derbyshire
Enlisted Sheffield, Yorkshire
Killed in action 26th June 1915 aged 28
Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

1911 Census
A colliery labourer below ground
Son of Joseph, a colliery onsetter below ground, and Ann Leverton, of 32, Mansfield Road, Killamarsh, Derbyshire

(Photograph from the Derbyshire Courier, 18th September 1915)

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